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Reliever Brandon League is expected to be sidelined for a couple of months with shoulder inflammation, Manager Don Mattingly said. "It's an extended period of time," Mattingly said. The results of League's recent MRI examination were reviewed Friday by team physician Neal ElAttrache, as well as another doctor. League was diagnosed with posterior shoulder inflammation and prescribed rest. "I think it's three weeks of rest," Mattingly said. League would have to build his arm strength after that. He is also expected to pitch in minor league games to get in competitive form. League pitched in only two games in the exhibition season, most recently...

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Reliever Brandon League is expected to be sidelined for a couple of months with shoulder inflammation, Manager Don Mattingly said.
"It's an extended period of time," Mattingly said.
The results of League's recent MRI examination were...

David Huff doesn't know what he'll be asked to do this season.
Will he be a starter, as he was Saturday in the Dodgers' 5-4 victory over the Angels? Or a long reliever? Or a situational left-hander?
The 30-year-old, six-year veteran doesn't even know if...

Although Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers had a good laugh about the line drive that toppled their ace on Friday afternoon, Kershaw paid the price Friday night.
He spent the evening at the dentist.
Kershaw said after Friday's game that the only...

The face of the franchise was down. The best pitcher in baseball had been hit by a line drive. Clayton Kershaw sat on the mound, rubbing his hand against the side of his face.
And then he got up, shrugged off a chipped tooth, and kept on pitching. The...

On the day Hyun-Jin Ryu returned to the Dodgers’ spring-training camp, right-hander Brandon League said he would undergo an MRI examination on his right shoulder.
League is expected to start the season on the disabled list.“He hasn’t pitched in a while,”...

Bad command or bad blood?
Whatever the case, a series of hit batters resulted in four ejections Monday in the Dodgers’ 7-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Dodgers utility man Justin Turner was struck twice.
“You don’t ever want to get hit...

With the injured left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu ruled out for opening day, would the Dodgers look to trade for another starting pitcher?
Yes, if they can add an arm for the back of their rotation. No, Cole Hamels is not walking through that door.
The...

Juan Uribe is the Dodgers' starter at third base this season, no matter how he performs this spring. Beyond that, who knows?
Uribe again? Unlikely.
Hector Olivera? Corey Seager? Alex Guerrero?
Uribe's contract expires at the end of this season. So do...

COLORADO 6, DODGERS 4
DODGERS 11, TEXAS 3
AT THE PLATE: Adrian Gonzalez hit two of the Dodgers' five home runs against the Rangers. The Dodgers hit 10 home runs in two games in San Antonio; they have 20 home runs in 18 games in Arizona. Juan Uribe had...

This is a pretty quiet camp for the Dodgers. Once they determine the identities of their relievers, they do not have much to decide.
So, when Yasiel Puig gets off to a slow spring start, that becomes an issue, at least for a day. Puig is batting .174...

With five playoff spots in each league, there is a good chance that a race or two extends to the last game of the season. In an effort to amplify the drama, Major League Baseball has scheduled every game on the final day of the regular season to start...

Even before Joc Pederson showed up for spring training, the Dodgers had said the center field job would be a battle between Pederson and Andre Ethier.
A month later that battle has become a rout.
After going three for three with a home run in...

If Howie Kendrick wondered how he would fit in with a new team after nine seasons with the Angels, those questions have been answered less than a month into his first spring with the Dodgers.
Standing in the middle of the clubhouse Tuesday, Kendrick wore...

Paco Rodriguez would like to apologize to his grandmother. But it's really Don Mattingly's fault.
Last fall Mattingly, the Dodgers manager, kept the left-handed reliever off a playoff roster for the second time in as many seasons. And for Rodriguez...

And here things had been going so remarkably well with this new Dodgers bullpen.
One of the few returning pieces, Brandon League, officially suffered a setback Monday, the right-hander getting shut down for several days with shoulder inflammation. He...

Hyun-Jin Ryu made his first appearance of the spring Thursday and he looked to be in midseason form, retiring all six batters he faced in the Dodgers' 1-0 win over the San Diego Padres.
Ryu had his spring debut delayed by back soreness that so...

AT THE PLATE: Justin Turner, who batted .340 in his first season with the Dodgers last year, was two for four with a two-run double in the fourth inning. The utility man is batting .308 this spring. "Everything's on the nose," Manager Don...

Zack Greinke says he should be ready for the beginning of the regular season.
Whereas Clayton Kershaw pitched three innings in his second start of the spring, Greinke pitched only two against the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday because his throwing program was...

From the Dodgers clubhouse to the manager's office, the verdict is unanimous: Corey Seager is the real deal.
In the first two-plus weeks of spring training, the 20-year-old Seager has demonstrated why he is considered one of the top prospects in...

Faster than you can say "bye-bye speeding bullet" and "red to blue," Los Angeles baseball fans were thrown a curve over the winter.
It was Dec. 11, and the Dodgers were on a transaction tear.
The first shoe to drop was a...